Archaeologists believe that the royal tomb of Lady K’abel, a late seventh-century queen, has been discovered in Guatemala in the Classic Maya city of El Perú-Waka’. Lady K’abel was a Maya Holy Snake Lord and a supreme warlord, making her the most powerful person in the kingdom during her lifetime. The tomb was found in […]

Based upon the skull and lower jaw bone, archaeologists from Austria’s Museum of Ancient History say that a grave containing metal-working tools belonged to a Bronze Age woman. It had been thought that such work was performed only by men during this period. “It was normal in those days for a person to be buried […]